Google's plans in Asia

Over the last three months the number of Internet users in Asia grew equivalent whole population of Canada. According to the vice-president of data centers Google Joe Kava, this impressive growth is the main reason why the company is interested in the physical presence in the region.



More than half the world's population and nearly half of all Internet-using lives in Asia. Every day in the Asia-Pacific region is connected to the Internet more and more new users than any other country in the world. To be closer to Google makes sense to locate here their data centers, especially considering that most people are not yet using the Internet, just live here. Besides the development of cloud technology increases the importance of proximity to potential customers. No delay when accessing the cloud data and good throughput can be achieved only through a local presence.

During his speech at the conference Datacenter Dynamics Converged 2014 Singapore Joe Kavanagh same shared information about the use of a machine learning system to further improve the impressive values ​​of energy efficiency in data centers Google. Machine learning system handles large volumes of information and apply pattern recognition to improve the efficiency of energy use in real time with high accuracy. The algorithm monitors total IT-load, air temperature, and the utilization of mechanical and cooling equipment. Within a few months, such a system will be launched in a data center in Singapore.

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In 2013, Google launched the Asia-Pacific region, two data centers located in Jurong West Singapore and in Changhua County in Taiwan. Despite the fact that the center is designed and built around the same time, their structure and characteristics are very different. Because of the lack of land in the city-state data center in Singapore is built on a small area 2, 45 hectares, while the data center in Taiwan, located on more than 15 acres.

Explaining the choice of Singapore for the construction of the data center, Joe Kavanagh mentions a number of factors, such as network neutrality, its business environment and privacy of data. According to these parameters Singapore occupies the top lines in Asia. There are already operating data centers such companies as Microsoft, Amazon, SoftLayer, NTT, Tata Communications and others.

Hot and humid environment is not a problem, other data centers Google has already passed this test. For example, a data center in South Carolina in the summer gets hot and humid. At Google know how to build data centers for a warm climate, if it was provided by the project from the outset.

But despite all the enthusiasm for Singapore, Kava admitted that it was much easier to build, with a large plot of land. Construction of a small space - a logistical challenge for the company. Limitations of land and rights of excavation forced Google to make a data center in Singapore high-rise. This is the first multi-storey data center for Google and its construction was rethought construction method for making the appropriate changes in the design.

The data center in Singapore is cooled by NEWater, Singapore's brand Putility Utilities Board, purify drinking water from wastewater.

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Built to be the most efficient and environmentally friendly in Asia, the Google data center in Taiwan uses the cooling at night and heat storage system that reduces energy consumption by 50% compared to previous solutions. The system cools the water at night with lower temperatures stores water in insulated tanks and pumping it around the object to be cooled during the day. Such systems reduce costs, allowing the company to use the air conditioning at night at lower tariffs for electricity and cooling energy stored during the day, when rates are high. According to Joe Kava, these ideas are not revolutionary, but Google has used them for their own data centers for the first time.

Google has already invested in the project in Taiwan about 600 million. Dollars and plans to develop it further. The third stage of the investment may start in early 2015. Over time, the project could become the largest cloud data center in the Asia-Pacific region.

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But even for a company the size of Google is not so serene. In December last year, Google revised its plans to build a data center in Hong Kong, referring to the cost of the work and the complexity of the acquisition of a large piece of land. At Google, said that despite the huge potential and opportunities of Hong Kong, the company decided to stop work on the project and focus on the regions, the presence of which can provide economies of scale.

Rumors of a possible rejection of the project appeared long ago, as the land in 2, 7 hectares, provided by corporations of scientific and technological parks in Hong Kong for the construction of the data center Google, remained empty for almost 2 years after the groundbreaking ceremony. Allusion to the lack of space it seems far-fetched, given that Singapore's data center is located on a plot of 2, 45 hectares, so the prevailing opinion that Google abandoned the project for political or some other reasons, one of which is strengthening the Chinese censorship. Whatever it was, the land has been returned under the provisions of the contract.

Will Google build new data centers in the region? As reported last month, Joe Kavanagh, no. He said instead, Google will focus on the development of their investments in the region, including long-term investments in Singapore in the amount of 120 mln. US dollars (152, 6 million. Singapore dollars).

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